Made a back-up with Norton Ghost 15. Can it be stopped from notifying me or scanning drives?

Hi. I made a back-up with Norton Ghost 15. Can it be stopped from notifying me to make back-ups or from scanning drives when it's not time to make a back-up? The services cannot be made manual or stopped, the services slows my computer down.

 

Plus it keeps asking to back-up my external drive which IS the destination drive for the back-ups. I unplug the usb2 drive and Norton Ghost 15 keeps asking where it is. But I want my drive off when not in use and to extend it's possible life cycle so the drive doesn't fail.

 

System is: XP Home Edition 32-bit - ASUS M3N78-VM - AMD Phenom II 965 3.4Ghz - nVidia GT 430 - 3.5 (4) Gb RAM - 4 internal HDD's.

You may want to consider uninstalling it and just use the Cold Backup feature from the SRD. You would probably want to make a Custom SRD before you uninstall it so it will have the license key in it. That way you don't have to enter it every time you run a backup.


SyncroScales wrote:

Hi. I made a back-up with Norton Ghost 15. Can it be stopped from notifying me to make back-ups or from scanning drives when it's not time to make a back-up? The services cannot be made manual or stopped, the services slows my computer down.

 

Plus it keeps asking to back-up my external drive which IS the destination drive for the back-ups. I unplug the usb2 drive and Norton Ghost 15 keeps asking where it is. But I want my drive off when not in use and to extend it's possible life cycle so the drive doesn't fail.

 

System is: XP Home Edition 32-bit - ASUS M3N78-VM - AMD Phenom II 965 3.4Ghz - nVidia GT 430 - 3.5 (4) Gb RAM - 4 internal HDD's.


Hi,

I have a couple of drives on my system that I do not backup and I have changed the reporting status in Ghost to 'not reported'. This has eliminated the nags from Ghost to make back ups of things I really don't want backed up.

I don't think there's a way to prevent Ghost from scanning for the drive you back up and the destination drive. Everything else can be kept out of the equation.

If heat buildup isn't a problem with the external it might just last longer by running continuously. I've heard both sides well defended so I'd have to leave as a 'user's choice' decision.

My other observation would be that if you have data which ABSOLUTELY cannot be lost you should consider making a periodic backup to DVDs and put them in a very safe place. HDD storage is only temporary.

Hope there's some help here for you.

If you don't want Ghost running all the time and only want to run it manually, you can set the service for manual and remove the registry entry under the Run section of the registry.  (back it up first).

 

Then nothing runs in the background but if you click the shortcut the program will open, the service starts, and it then scans the drives.  It takes a little longer for it to start because the service isn't running but it gives you the option of only having it run when you need it.

 

Dave

Thanks for the suggestion. I didn't change the service to manual. I do this with other programs and don't mind that they startup a little slower. But as long as it fully works, I can do that. Some services don't work properly when you change some of the options, or stop them or manual them.

 

Want Ghost to run manually.

 

Had turned off some of the features in options, but it kept going and looking for some reason.

 

I remember either I tried to change a service to manual, but Ghost kept running it and lagging my computer, then wouldn't let me turn it off. I think more than one is in the system. It might be the updater or something. It's a bit of a pain...

You can simple disable the backup job by opening Ghost, click on the ADVANCED tab, click on the BACKUP JOBS tab and locating the backup job. Right-mouse click on the job and selecting DISABLE.

 

If you do not want the external (or any) drive to report the status, click on the STATUS tab, right-mouse click on the volume, and click on CUSTOMIZE STATUS REPORTING and set according to your preference.


SyncroScales wrote:

 

I remember either I tried to change a service to manual, but Ghost kept running it and lagging my computer, then wouldn't let me turn it off. I think more than one is in the system. It might be the updater or something. It's a bit of a pain...


You need to disable or remove the registry entry in addition to setting the service to manual or it's still going to load.

The registry entry will reset the service.

 

Go to Start > Run and type in MSCONFIG

look under the startup tab for the Ghost entry (I forgot what it's called).

Disable that and then go into services.msc

stop the service and then set it to manual.

reboot the system and it should start without Ghost, click the shortcut to verify it manually starts.

 

Dave

One more thing - you can prevent the notification icon from telling you that you missed backups by opening Ghost, clicking TASKS, then OPTIONS. Then click on TRAY ICON in the left panel. You can change notification options here.

 

Hope all of this is plenty of information for you. :)

Great info. I had done some of that, but not all of it.

 

I am leery about going into msconfig, since I have had problems with it before. It is good to know that information.

 

Is it the same for Vista and XP?